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— Each week the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) sends out an e-mail alert called Take Action Thursday, which tells subscribers about current actions they can take to help animals. NAVS is a national, not-for-profit educational organization incorporated in the State of Illinois. NAVS promotes greater compassion, respect, and justice for animals through educational programs based on respected ethical and scientific theory and supported by extensive documentation of the cruelty and waste of vivisection. You can register to receive these action alerts and more at the NAVS Web site.

This week, Take Action Thursday focuses on state efforts to regulate the care and disposition of dogs and cats used in research. It also reports on a federal lawsuit upholding the right of rescue groups to freely criticize animal control facilities that they help without fear of retaliation.

State Legislation

In Connecticut, HB 6291 requires any research facility, including institutions of higher education, that a) receives public moneys or a tax exemption, and b) conducts research using dogs or cats, to first offer the animals to a rescue organization rather than immediately euthanizing them. Connecticut joins three other states in proposing this common-sense legislation.

If you live in Connecticut, please contact your state Representative and ask him/her to SUPPORT this bill.continue reading…

— Each week the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) sends out an e-mail alert called Take Action Thursday, which tells subscribers about current actions they can take to help animals. NAVS is a national, not-for-profit educational organization incorporated in the State of Illinois. NAVS promotes greater compassion, respect, and justice for animals through educational programs based on respected ethical and scientific theory and supported by extensive documentation of the cruelty and waste of vivisection. You can register to receive these action alerts and more at the NAVS Web site.

This week, Take Action Thursday spotlights new legislation designed to silence whistleblowers and undercover investigators who try to reveal the shocking cruelty that has become routine on many factory farms. It also reports on the successful criminal prosecution of a dog breeder in Italy who failed to provide adequate care for dogs destined for research facilities throughout Europe.

This year, a number of states have already introduced legislation aimed at silencing animal advocates who work to expose the cruelty of factory farming. These bills, commonly referred to as “ag-gag bills,” attempt to combat animal activism directly by increasing criminal penalties for taking a job at an agricultural facility with the sole purpose of reporting criminal animal cruelty. Some bills are broader in scope and criminalize all recording of any industrial and agricultural operations. Other bills take a more subtle approach to criminalizing investigations into institutional animal abuse. But they all seek to punish activists exposing abuse at agricultural facilities instead of holding the facilities themselves responsible for any illegal conduct.

State Legislation

In Colorado, SB 42 would require the mandatory reporting of animal abandonment, mistreatment or neglect within 48 hours of its discovery. This bill is problematic because undercover investigations of animal abuse at agricultural facilities can take weeks or even months to obtain sufficient documentation, not merely two days. While this bill, at first glance, appears to be aimed solely at stopping animal abuse, it essentially becomes an ag-gag bill, which would have a chilling effect on revealing systemic abuse in the agriculture industry. Additionally, this bill would make it a crime to knowingly make a false report, leaving individuals uncertain if they will be breaking the law by reporting or not reporting suspected abuse. continue reading…

— Each week the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) sends out an e-mail alert called Take Action Thursday, which tells subscribers about current actions they can take to help animals. NAVS is a national, not-for-profit educational organization incorporated in the State of Illinois. NAVS promotes greater compassion, respect, and justice for animals through educational programs based on respected ethical and scientific theory and supported by extensive documentation of the cruelty and waste of vivisection. You can register to receive these action alerts and more at the NAVS Web site.

Since most state legislatures have ended their sessions for the current year, this week’s Take Action Thursday celebrates legislative victories you’ve helped make happen.

State Legislation

As the calendar year nears its end, a majority of state legislatures have adjourned and most of the bills introduced this year (or in states with a two-year session in 2013 and 2014) have died in committee. A number of these bills were featured in past issues of Take Action Thursday, but the good news is that some of the bills did become law!

NAVS strives to advance the principles of justice and compassion for animals through our educational programs, including Take Action Thursday. Please help ensure the effectiveness of advocacy on behalf of animals by contacting your elected officials. Take a minute to thank your state legislators who give their support to bills that further the welfare and well-being of non-human animals.continue reading…

Each week the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) sends out an e-mail alert called Take Action Thursday, which tells subscribers about current actions they can take to help animals. NAVS is a national, not-for-profit educational organization incorporated in the State of Illinois. NAVS promotes greater compassion, respect, and justice for animals through educational programs based on respected ethical and scientific theory and supported by extensive documentation of the cruelty and waste of vivisection. You can register to receive these action alerts and more at the NAVS Web site.

This week’s Take Action Thursday focuses on legislation that would ensure that cats and dogs used in research would be made available for adoption when they are no longer needed. It also reports on a lawsuit filed in Japan to put the spotlight on the slaughter of dolphins in Taiji and the substandard conditions of captivity of a rare albino dolphin in the city’s Whale Museum. continue reading…

Each week the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) sends out an e-mail alert called Take Action Thursday, which tells subscribers about current actions they can take to help animals. NAVS is a national, not-for-profit educational organization incorporated in the State of Illinois. NAVS promotes greater compassion, respect, and justice for animals through educational programs based on respected ethical and scientific theory and supported by extensive documentation of the cruelty and waste of vivisection. You can register to receive these action alerts and more at the NAVS Web site.

This week’s Take Action Thursday encourages you to contact legislators for sponsorship of the Humane Cosmetics Act and for support of a new Animal Emergency Planning bill. It also provides an update to a Connecticut court decision that ruled that horses are “inherently dangerous.” continue reading…

"Service Animal" Scammers (New Yorker): An increasing number of your neighbors have been keeping company with their pets in human-only establishments simply by claiming that the creatures are their licensed companion animals and are necessary to their mental well-being.

Why London’s pig café pop-up is a terrible idea for pigs: Teacup pigs are adorable. Unfortunately, they’re also a complete fabrication. But that isn’t stopping a local London specialty breeder and Yelp from putting on an adoption event to educate the public on “proper” micro pig care.